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Medean
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English
Etymology 1
From en Mede an.
Adjective
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en Median.
Noun
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en Median.
Etymology 2
From en Medea n.
Adjective
Of, or pertaining to, Medea from Greek mythology.
2005, Scott McGill, Virgil Recomposed: The Mythological and Secular Centos in Antiquity, ch. 2, "Tragic Virgil: The Medea", page 50
As Dido was (among other things) a tragic and a Medean character in those passages in Virgil, so now Medea can seem Didonian, which can in turn call up the tragic quality of Dido, and so point to a type of generic contiguity.
Related terms
Medea
Translations
of, or pertaining to, Medea
Polish: pl medejski
Anagrams
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